John_Barber Posted May 15, 2005 Posted May 15, 2005 Santa and other fans of "Poll options" may be interested in the ABC Documentary tonight (19:30 ABC) "The Minotaur's Island" which is about the Island of Crete. Anyway the attractive & well read girly hosting the show covers the development and extraction of "Purple" from a particularly smelly sea snail. (Is there a message there?) For those on the east coast, well the Purple bit's finished, but for those over West, you have time to check it out!!! Cheers JB
Santa1503559644 Posted May 15, 2005 Posted May 15, 2005 Santa and other fans of "Poll options" may be interested in the ABC Documentary tonight (19:30 ABC) "The Minotaur's Island" which is about the Island of Crete.Anyway the attractive & well read girly hosting the show covers the development and extraction of "Purple" from a particularly smelly sea snail. (Is there a message there?) For those on the east coast, well the Purple bit's finished, but for those over West, you have time to check it out!!! Cheers JB <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Believe it or not (!) Santa's well versed on this one (that is the purple dye story). {Surprise, surprise!} Btw: While that series is not too bad*, and though she's not tooo hard on the eyes ... it'd be fun to see just one scene without her slap bang in the middle of every freakin' shot!!!! _______________________________ *NB: This Santa's also well versed on the ol' ancient history lark, so the series hasn't really offered anything much new... {no, thats not a pun, btw!} PS: Did you see that series on the history of Gold about six months back hidden on SBS, JB? That was a lot more interesting than I'd expected... PPS: At least the minotaurean series isn't full of silly "fake-u-mentary" re-enactments like so many these days.
John_Barber Posted May 15, 2005 Author Posted May 15, 2005 Btw: While that series is not too bad*, and though she's not tooo hard on the eyes ... it'd be fun to see just one scene without her slap bang in the middle of every freakin' shot!!!!_______________________________ *NB: This Santa's also well versed on the ol' ancient history lark, so the series hasn't really offered anything much new... {no, thats not a pun, btw!} PS: Did you see that series on the history of Gold about six months back hidden on SBS, JB? That was a lot more interesting than I'd expected... Hmm, I should have known you'd already be the purple expert, Santa. There does appear to be a bit of a change in the British Documentary style these days, Less Attenborough, more "ass" (I use the American spelling as it has more of a "well formed buttocks" connotation than "arse") There's also that VEOTE* chick who did the jungle and apes docos a while back. This Minotaur shelia was doing all the right stuff, getting in the water with the wet shirt and pulling out these smelly little snails. Hmm, was it my imagination or was that water a bit cold. (* Very Easy On The Eyes) Don't remember the gold doco, unfortunately, sounds interesting. There's a bloody surfeit of interesting docos on at the moment, dunno which way to turn. Actually I'm reading a surprisingly interesting book at the moment, just spotted it by accident and bought it on the spur of the moment, it's a book on "Mercator" ; he of "Mercator Projection" (Maps and atlases) fame. Am I getting desperate for reading material?? I think I may finish it tonight, after this slightly strange English language Indian movie on SBS!! Cheers JB
Digicruiser Posted May 15, 2005 Posted May 15, 2005 Phew! I thought when I read the subject that we were rivisting that dude who does "1999" "cream" and all that...
Tweet Posted May 15, 2005 Posted May 15, 2005 I think her first name was Bettamy............ Yes, increasingly such programs are being presented by personalities.it was something like an Elvis movie,she was in every frame. She was nice though, much like my cousin. C.M
Jet1503559506 Posted May 15, 2005 Posted May 15, 2005 Bettany Hughes - The archeological "Nigella Lawson" - but betta (sic) looking! Jet :ph34r:
Santa1503559644 Posted May 16, 2005 Posted May 16, 2005 Btw: While that series is not too bad*, and though she's not tooo hard on the eyes ... it'd be fun to see just one scene without her slap bang in the middle of every freakin' shot!!!!_______________________________ *NB: This Santa's also well versed on the ol' ancient history lark, so the series hasn't really offered anything much new... {no, thats not a pun, btw!} PS: Did you see that series on the history of Gold about six months back hidden on SBS, JB? That was a lot more interesting than I'd expected... Hmm, I should have known you'd already be the purple expert, Santa. There does appear to be a bit of a change in the British Documentary style these days, Less Attenborough, more "ass" (I use the American spelling as it has more of a "well formed buttocks" connotation than "arse") There's also that VEOTE* chick who did the jungle and apes docos a while back. As I'm always bemoaning, there are few real docos left in this GWB/JWH/T?B era... While I'm not (at all) averse to a easy-viewing presenter, its the whole dumbing-down phenomenon that gives me the screaming Downers... And, as everyone on this forum is probably well-aware now ... I cant stand freakin' fake-u-mentaries with all that bullsh*t CGD {computer generated dialogue} between, say Nero and Napoleon or Cleopatra and her manservant, etc etc etc... {Yeah, saw the "jungle chick" - agreed!} This Minotaur shelia was doing all the right stuff, getting in the water with the wet shirt and pulling out these smelly little snails. Hmm, was it my imagination or was that water a bit cold.(* Very Easy On The Eyes) Don't remember the gold doco, unfortunately, sounds interesting. There's a bloody surfeit of interesting docos on at the moment, dunno which way to turn. Actually I'm reading a surprisingly interesting book at the moment, just spotted it by accident and bought it on the spur of the moment, it's a book on "Mercator" ; he of "Mercator Projection" (Maps and atlases) fame. Am I getting desperate for reading material?? I think I may finish it tonight, after this slightly strange English language Indian movie on SBS!! Cheers JB <{POST_SNAPBACK}> One of the (relatively) recent docos on SBS on "The MapMakers" had some good stuff on ol' Merky! Up until the last year or two, with the almost total intrusion of FakeUmentaries, I watched just about every decent doco on tv... that's just my preference - the real world versus "reality tv"/gossip/manufactured-marketed "culture" etc... {NB: Read the book, and watched the (much feebler) "longitude", btw} Best doco/factual/historical series ever? The Civil War (of course!) PS - If you didn't watch it, and ever get a chance on repeat, catch the doco on that seminal master of photography, and all-round-legend Ansel Adams ... loved it on the 110" screen!
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